Synopsis

Lady in WhiteIn this supernatural nostalgia piece, a young boy tracks down a murderer with help from the ghosts of a slain little girl and her mother. In a voice-over, grown-up writer Frankie Scarlatti describes the disturbing events that intruded on his idyllic small-town boyhood. Locked in the school cloakroom by some other boys on Halloween 1962, young Frankie (Lukas Haas) encounters the ghost of Melissa Anne Montgomery (Joelle Jacobi), who re-enacts her own death by strangulation just before an unseen adult enters the school and tries to do away with Frankie himself. While recuperating in the care of his widower father (Alex Rocco), Frankie conducts some detective work and learns that Melissa is one of ten children killed over the past decade. Further encounters with the girl's ghost -- and the mournful specter of her mother, the Lady in White (Karen Powell) -- do little to help the boy solve the mystery of who killed the kids. Meanwhile, an innocent black maintenance man becomes the scapegoat on which the police hang the killings. However, thanks to the damning but enigmatic evidence Frankie has discovered, the boy faces imminent danger from the actual killer, who ends up lurking terrifyingly close to home. The sophomore feature from writer/director Frank LaLoggia, who made his name with the low-budget horror film Fear No Evil, Lady in White starred the young Lukas Haas halfway between his appearances in Witness and Rambling Rose. ~ Brian J. Dillard, Rovi

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Posted 1 month ago

moviereviewer1949

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The Blu-ray provided an excellent picture and sound. The movie is entertaining as two ghosts help a young boy solve a decade old murder. The story is well written and the movie has a cast who perform admirably and make the story almost believable. This movie is worth watching closely and I recommend it.

I would recommend this to a friend

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bradde

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars

5

Great movie!

Posted 7 years ago

bradde

This review is from The Lady in White [DVD] [1988]

I love the family in this movie,all very loving and careing, goes well with the rest of the story line.

I would recommend this to a friend

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mizzpan

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Rating: 5 out of 5 stars

5

VERY GOOD!!

Posted 1 year ago

mizzpan

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This is a very good movie. They filmed some of it in the next town from where i lived